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Thread: Eccles: Blessed Sacrament Webcam
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Pure Sunshine
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Great piece, Ross! Very entertaining!
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Ann
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Thanks Ross, I think you've captured the mood excellently. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Anselmina
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Congratulations, Rossweisse, on a great article.
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Pigwidgeon
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Wonderful, Rossweisse!!!
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Corpus cani
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Great article Ross, but any chance the Munx might read it, 'cos I still haven't caught Jesus in the flesh as 'twere?
Cc
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Rossweisse
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Thank you, all! (No applause, please -- just throw chocolate.) (Or Scotch.)
Corpus, Margaret has kindly consented to notify the munx. Perhaps they will read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest -- or perhaps not.
Ross
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Corpus cani
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Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Corpus, Margaret has kindly consented to notify the munx. Perhaps they will read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest -- or perhaps not.
The alternative is, of course, that I set up my own BSW - 'course, it would only work on the days when I am on duty as hospital chaplain, collect the Sacrament from OLoT, bring Him home, stash Him in my chapel-niche-corner-type-place and light the candle whilst I have lunch, and get ready to drive back to the hospital. 'Part from that, it would be fine. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Corpus
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Rossweisse
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This is still (as someone said some pages ago) the One True Webcam. My loyalties are set!
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Corpus cani
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
This is still (as someone said some pages ago) the One True Webcam. My loyalties are set!
I appreciate that, apologise profusely and immediately withdraw any suggestion of any shoddy Blessed Sham-Cam.
Cc
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Rossweisse
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Quite all right, Corpus -- you were only trying to help! ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Margaret
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No response to my e-mail yet from the munx - but then they're probably desperately writing cards and wrapping presents just like the rest of us...
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Rossweisse
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...or busy shopping.
Monk 1: What should we get the bishop?
Monk 2: Do we have to get him anything? Remember how he put us off and put us off for the chapel consecration, and in the end we had to put up with the mere Vicar General? I mean, really!
M1: Well, we HAVE to get him SOMEthing!
M2: How about a DVD of the consecration?
M1: Oh, good idea!
M2: Now, what should we get for the Pope?
M1: He likes playing Beethoven and Mozart on the piano. How about a score?
M2: But he has a pretty big music library. How do we know what he already has?
M1: We COULD send him one of our clocks.
M2: Oh, PERfect!
....and so on
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Conte Oberto
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) Thanx munx and Rosswesse! Great article, great site, great thread.
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Margaret
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Still no reply from the munx - I have a sneaking feeling that they don't appreciate us quite as much as we appreciate them ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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Is that an unexpected monstrance I see before my ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Prompted by Rossweisse's article?
Glory be! Jesus bounces back...
[ 18. December 2006, 21:35: Message edited by: Ancient Mariner ]
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Ann
Curious
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Glory be!
After yet another no show for the 11 am Mass, I thought some sinister plague had taken aholt of them.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Great article. Went back and reread the first few pages of the thread for sheer joy.
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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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Terrific article, Ross-- ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
For those of you moaning about the cinder block rood screen, I just want to point out that they were quite honest about the "bricks" and some Ship contributors have paid for the very thing which depresses them (almost Biblical, that--).
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Having browsed a page or two (and resisted the temptation to subscribe to their 'Buck a Brick' campaign), I was greatly diverted by their description of the proposed cemetery as a monk's retirement home.....
Perhaps an offering of a quantity of an appropriately decorative substance could be made? A "Bored by the Bricks, put up a *XXX*" campaign mounted?
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Rossweisse
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Thank you!
No monstrance at this hour, but I notice they seem to have turned up the lights. It's a wonder Jesus can even sleep in there.
(Margaret, how could the munx fail to appreciate a following so loyal? ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif) )
Ross
PS LMC, OTHER parts of the monastery have drywall. Why not the chapel?
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Ann
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I've been looking at that wall (for hours on end?) and I'm still not sure. Although it could very well be breeze-block/cinder block, from some angles it looks like undressed stone or stone-cladding. With abysmal pointing.
Although the question remains, why doesn't it go up to the ceiling. Possibly, that bit is obscured by the rood screen when looking in from the public part of the chapel, even although the portrait crosses the line, but surely the medieval tradition of finishing everything beautifully, even the bits seen only by God, should apply.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Knotty Pine would be nice- like my parents' (God rest their souls) Rumpus Room used to be.
Then we could put in a pool table. No doubt it'd get more use than the present 'table' does.
Rack 'em up !!
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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One of the munx NOW, if you're quick (and devoted). SPECIAL BONUS - change of camera position.
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Ann
Curious
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Yes, they've just finished Mass (the first one since the ones PB4S and I saw) and the poor little monk's had to go for a sit down.
(I have a few screen-grabs)
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Ann
Curious
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And now He's out. O frabjous day, twice in one day!
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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And who needs an advent calendar when you can count down to the much-loved BSW nativity crib?
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Three days to go.
'Oh Chill, all ye Faithful.'
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Rossweisse
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I think the munx are snubbing us.
I look forward to the creche, however!
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scopatore segreto
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
I look forward to the creche, however!
Are they going to lay the monstrance in the manger?
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Don't be ridiculous. Have you read (or even skimmed) this entire thread, scopatore?
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Are they going to lay the monstrance in the manger?
I think maybe a mini-Host, about the size of of thumb-tack.
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Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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quote:
Originally posted by scopatore segreto:
Are they going to lay the monstrance in the manger?
And that's why this thread is just too, too wonderful.
'The cattle are lowing
'The monstrance awakes...'
[ 22. December 2006, 12:09: Message edited by: Ancient Mariner ]
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Margaret
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I don't think the munx think so, though. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) Still no reply to my e-mail about Ross's article, not even to return my Christmas greetings!
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Mass has started; just slip in quietly.
Can anyone see what the purple...is, next to the altar? Shhhh.....
PB4S
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Ann
Curious
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They're Massing again!
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Ann
Curious
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Should have refreshed before scaring the horses.
I think that purple next to the altar is the priest!
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Margaret
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Oh NO! I've missed it again - they don't hang about, do they?
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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No, they do not seem to spend much time in camera range.
(Rather rude of them not to respond to you, Margaret, it seems to me....)
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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Just two days to wait... two days until the crib is beamed down among us. Still my beating heart.
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babybear
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Where's Jesus now? I can see a cross at the front of the table, four lantern (one at each corner of the table), and one a little bit further back, resting on a something
Where is Jesus?
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Bishops Finger
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Babybear, Jesus is in the Tabernacle (the little cupboard beneath the painting - although technically I guess it's actually an aumbry). IIRC, He is usually to be seen around 6.00pm UK time - but don't quote me on that!
Ancient Mariner, I think we'll be very lucky indeed if we do get to see a Crib. It'll probably be somewhere else in the chapel, off-screen.......
Ian J.
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) babybear
Got to say I am saddened and disappointed in your post, bb. I held you in much higher esteem. Stumbling, nay barging loudly into this thread, expecting to 'see Jesus' instantly, is exactly what the drunks, oafs and revellers expect on ********* Eve in churches worldwide.
Be assured He will not turn up on demand. True meaning and value is given, all in good time, to those who wait upon the divine, rejoice in the quietness.
You have much to learn, sister.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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They're really pouring it on, this week ! Mass Again
Pearl B Sin***g
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Pigwidgeon
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THANK YOU, PB4S!!! This is the very first time I've seen live people there!
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babybear
Bear faced and cheeky with it
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quote:
Ori***ally posted by Ancient Mariner:
babybear
Ah, hold on. I didn't know that Jesus was know 'built in' to the wall. Last time I looked he had a pretty goldeny box.
I was confused.
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Bishops Finger
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Confused perhaps, but surely it was worth it to get such a nice little homily from the Ancient One! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Ian J.
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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Please do it in Farsi, Gwai.
(Should we send the munx some Bombay Sapphire for Kirisamu, as the Japanese call the holiday at hand?)
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Callan
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Can I add belated congratulations to Rossweisse for her article. Particularly as she remembered to plug my 'Italian Mission Job' spoof.
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Rossweisse
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Thank you, Callan!
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Corpus cani
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I'm losing faith. I did at least get the purple blob in the corner of a completely different view to suggest that things do change occasionally, but only on one occasion and(frankly) I'm beginning to think I just get the same picture everytime I log on. Y'all talk about different sized candles, but I'm not convinced.
Why do the munx love youse but don't like me? What have I done to offend them?
Cc
[Not the beloved of the Munx]
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